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BB compatibility problem.

list Stef Coene
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:14:57 +0100
Message-Id: <user-de9b7074bd0c@xymon.invalid>

On Monday 19 March 2007, Ulric Eriksson wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
You cannot use a Hobbit client with a BB server - whether it is BB Pro
or the "better-than-free" version.
Henrik, what does that mean exactly? Is it not supported, is it
not supposed to work, or what?

I'm asking because we (Mattias and I work for the same company)
use Hobbit clients successfully with BB servers. It Seems To Work
[tm] if it is purposely configured for that. We have a whole
bunch of BB servers and clients which will eventually be migrated
to Hobbit, but that will take some time and it would be a shame
if we had to keep installing BB clients until all the servers
have been replaced.
The hobbit client uses a format that the bb server will not understand.  
External scripts will work fine because they use the "BB protocol".

BB server: understands BB protocol
hobbit server: understands BB and hobbit protocol

BB client: uses BB protocol
hobbit client: uses hobbit protocol

BB and hobbit external scripts: uses BB protocol


Stef